The Petroleum Papers av Geoff Dembicki

143,-

Kjøp

<b>A <i>WASHINGTON POST</i> BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR</b><br><br><b>"An essential read."—<i>The Washington Post</i></b><br><br><b>"Essential… This book belongs on the shelf next to <i>Merchants of Doubt</i>, <i>Dark Money</i>, and <i>Kochland</i>." </b><b>—Roy Scranton, author of <i>Learning to Die in the Anthropocene</i></b><br><br><b>"The petroleum industry is guilty of a Big Tobacco–style public cover-up, according to this vivid exposé."</b><b>—<i>Publishers Weekly </i>STARRED Review</b><br><br>Burning fossil fuels will cause catastrophic global warming: this is what top American oil executives were told by scientists in 1959. But they ignored that warning. Instead, they developed one of the biggest, most polluting oil sources in the world—the oil sands in Alberta, Canada. As investigative journalist Geoff Dembicki reveals in this explosive book, the decades-long conspiracy to keep the oil sands flowing into the U.S.